DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

A new study maps locations of Chinese tombs, revealing over 4,000 years of power and wealth in early human societies.

The findings were recently announced by the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Shijiazhuang.

Step back in time with a day exploring Kaifeng, one of China’s ancient capitals, long known as the City of Justice. This ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

Among the highlights is a batch of digitized books donated by the Harvard-Yenching Library to the National Library of China ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Space travel didn’t begin with rockets — it began with stargazing. From Ptolemaic astronomy to early Chinese rocketry, ...